Research Board of Mechanical Engineering

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The Forschungskuratorium Maschinenbau (FKM) is a research association organized as a registered association that conducts basic research in the field of mechanical engineering .

The FKM was founded in 1968 and is based in the Niederrad office district in Frankfurt am Main . It has around 3000 member companies, 90 percent of which are medium- sized companies. The member companies provide staff, in-house knowledge and test facilities and receive access to the joint research results. The FKM is a member of the Working Group of Industrial Research Associations and the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering .

The FKM was involved in the research for DIN standards and has drawn up its own guidelines in the field of construction . Shortly after it was founded in 1968, the FKM coordinated research work on the load capacity of gears , which in 1970, together with the findings of the Research Association for Drive Technology, was incorporated into the DIN standard 3990 "Load capacity calculation of spur gears". This standard, in a revised version as an ISO standard , is still the standard for calculating gear load capacity to this day. In 1994 the FKM guideline "Computational strength verification of machine components " was published, which provides a general method for verifying the strength of components and can be implemented in FEM calculation software.

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  1. ↑ Sabrina Hippe: Imprint. In: www.fkm-net.de. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Member profile of the Mechanical Engineering Research Board. Website of the Working Group of Industrial Research Associations, accessed on July 11, 2016 (PDF).
  3. ^ Daniela Abdalla: Use and effort. In: www.fkm-net.de. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Georg Jacobs (Ed.): Maschinengestaltung Volume II. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86130-749-5 , p. 162.
  5. ↑ Georg Jacobs (Ed.): Maschinengestaltung Volume I. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86130-748-8 , pp. 1–2.
  6. ↑ FKM guidelines. FKM website, accessed on July 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Calculate proof of strength according to the FKM guideline. Website of a software manufacturer, accessed on July 11, 2016.